Hello, my name is Maria and I am working in the company Runiga Properties. I am specialized at the social communication, so I am in constant contact with our clients. I speak 6 languages: Spanish, Catalan, Russian, English, French and German. So, this helps me to be open-minded and to help our clients in different spheres and different services. We have a lot of international clients and I am all the time on phone or I meet with them, I help them, so there is no problem in the mutual understanding.

The service which is the most requiered is the selection of the real estate. So, when a client comes to our office, we ask him for the characteristics of the flat he would like to acquire, we look for the options and we bring him to some flats, we show them to him and he decides. Then we sign a contract and we help him in the service of post-sales. What is it? It is when we help him with the bank operations, when we find professional lawyers, make documents, permissions of residence, visas. Moreover, we help with some additional services like translations, interpretation, business consulting. It can be also education, for example, we can get an appointment for the university, help with the documents in order to register for something else. Moreover, we work in the sphere of tourism, for example, we have contracts with some companies which provide th rent of yachts, restaurants, bars, clubs, so we can organise a prívate, social or public event like a birthday or something like this. We also organise professional shopping with a special person. As for the sport, it is very common and popular between Spanish people and I am sure that if you come to any sport club you will see children who train hard and also older people who do sport. We would be happy to bring your child to a sport club, to organise a meeting with any sportsman you would like to see.

To sum up, we have a large variety of services to offer to our clients and we would be happy to see you in the offices of our company Runiga Properties.

Specialist on sale of residential and commercial real estate

– Monitoring of the market of residential and commercial real estate
– Conclusion of agreements with property owners
– Updating properties database
– Visiting real estate with the clients
– Preparation of portfolios about the objects of real property

Requirements:

– Knowledge of Spanish, English and French languages
– Good computer knowledge (MS Office, including Excel on a high level, Outlook, Internet)
– Successful experience in the real estate / consulting
– Presentable appearance
– Knowledge of the region of Barcelona and its surroundings
– A car and a driver´s license

Conditions:

– Comfortable, modern office in the center of Barcelona
– A large database of customers and owners of the real property
– The best tools for finding customers
– High commission

Consideration will be given only to candidates who meet all the indicated requirementsPlease send CV to e-mail: barcelona@runiga.com

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In the past few months, the first signs of a recovery – or at least a bottoming out – of Barcelona’s market have begun to appear. After falling 34.9 per cent from their 2007 peak, prices for city residential property fell only 1 per cent in 2013, according to Idealista.com, Spain’s largest property website.

The Russian citizens bet for purchasing homes, mostly luxury on the Costa Brava and bargains on the Costa Daurada.

Despite the crisis, the real estate business in the Costa Brava, Costa Dorada and Barcelona is supported, in part, through the purchase of houses by Russian citizens who decide to purchase a house for summer-and in many cases their permanent residence-in Catalunya. “They are our best customers and we work through them,” notes David Janssen, owner of the estate Barnamar of Salou, adding that the last five sales you’ve made on the Costa Daurada, three have been for Russian customers. Lourdes Vargas, Coast Realty real estate group, acknowledges that in the past six months the agency has generated 6 million euros of purchases from this group. Many of the agencies consulted on the Costa Dorada and Costa Brava Russian Buyer acknowledge that represents 50% or more of its customer base. The shopping boom occurs mainly between March and September, a period regarded as the high season of properties sold.

With so much information readily available online, clients sometimes ask me, “Why should we hire a real estate agent?” They wonder, and rightfully so, if they couldn’t buy or sell a home through the Internet or through regular marketing and advertising channels without representation, without a real estate agent. Some do OK, many don’t. So if you’ve wondered the same thing, here are 10 reasons why you might want to consider hiring a professional real estate agent.Read more »

Home Sales Fell 11.3% in 2012

Despite the announcement that the tax incentives for home purchases were to be scrapped at the end of last year, it did not prevent a further contraction in the housing market, and housing sales declined again in 2012, by 11.3% compared to 2011. Thus, according to the latest data published by the National Statistics Institute, the number of housing transactions marked their second year of negative results after the drop of 17.7% experienced in 2011, which followed the positive results of 2010.

The amount of property sale transactions during the 1st quarter of 2011 was 124,542. This is 33.9% increase —31,539 additional transactions— on the last quarter of 2010.

This data is part of the Land Registry Statistics and the Centre of Statistical Processes of the Land, Mercantile and Chattel Registrars Association of Spain.

The report issued by the Centre of Statistical Processes infers that this increase was caused by the IRPF (Income Tax) modifications to be enforced in 2011.

This could be the cause behind the high amount of sale transactions before the end of 2010, which was registered during the first months of 2011.

In the Region of Valencia alone, 15,356 transactions were registered: 6,653 took place in Alicante province, 6,625 in Valencia and 2,078 in Castellón. The province of Alicante is, in fact, the third province in Spain with the highest amount of registered transactions, only behind Madrid and Barcelona. All three provinces have increased the amount of transactions during the 1st quarter of 2011.